Tier I: Building
The Tier I: Building phase sets the stage for deeper instructional growth by empowering educators, supporting effective practices, and transforming mindsets. Key focus areas include helping students understand their role as a scholar, exploring the role of inquiry, and defining history as a discipline. It also emphasizes core teaching strategies such as historical thinking, backwards design, and classroom structures. Finally, this tier encourages transformative thinking through defining civic dispositions, integrating literacy into social studies, and unpacking educational context. Together, these components lay a strong groundwork for meaningful and impactful social studies instruction across future tiers of teaching, assessing, and empowering within the Thinking Nation framework.
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